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DLA Piper Horvath & Partners has advised Mediaworks Hungary Zrt. on the acquisition of Pannon Lapok Tarsasaga Kiadoi Kft. from Funke Mediengruppe. GSV Legal advised Mediaworks on Austrian matters. Schoenherr advised Funke Mediengruppe on the acquisition.
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Redcliffe Partners has advised Landesbank Berlin on the restructuring of EUR 244 million financing provided to Wind Power, a Ukrainian operating asset of the DTEK Renewables Group. The financing was backed by a guarantee of EKF, the Danish export credit agency.
DJBW Danilowicz Jurcewicz Biedecki i Wspolnicy has advised Vivid Games S.A. on the process of the company’s admission and introduction of shares to trading on the regulated market operated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Allen & Overy has advised PKO Bank Hipoteczny on its establishment of a EUR 4 billion international mortgage covered bonds program — the first international mortgage covered bonds program to be established by a Polish mortgage bank.
Schoenherr, working with the Swiss firm Bar & Karrer as lead counsel, is advising OVS S.p.A., a leading Italian clothing retailer, and Sempione Retail AG, in connection with Sempione Retail's cash tender offer for all publicly held bearer shares of Swiss company Charles Vogele Holding AG in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Poland. The Swiss Homburger firm and investment bank Lazard advised Charles Vogele.
Chajec, Don-Siemion & Zyto has advised two funds managed by TFI Capital Partners S.A. (a subsidiary of Capital Partners S.A.) — CP Closed Investment Fund (with the CP Private Equity and CP Absolute Return sub-funds) and Capital Partners Investment I FIZ. — on assuming shares in Orbitvu Sp. z o.o. Werner & Partners advised the sellers on the deal.
Wolf Theiss Ljubljana has advised Societa’ Italiana Acetilene e Derivati (SIAD), which already owned 49% of Istrabenz Plini d.o.o., on its successful acquisition of the remaining 51% share from Istrabenz d.d. Slovenia’s Zdolsek Attorneys at Law advised the sellers on the transaction, which closed on September 7, 2016.
Taylor Wessing in Vienna is reporting that Michaela Petritz-Klar, 39, former Head of the Tax Team of Schoenherr, has joined Taylor Wessing as a Partner and will head the firm’s newly-established CEE Tax Practice Group.
Dobrev & Lyutskanov has announced that former Senior Associate Katerina Gramatikova has been promoted to Junior Partner.
Bojanovic & Partners, in Serbia, has announced the October 1, 2016 launch of a new alliance of nine leading independent law firms across the Balkans.
The Pepeliaev Group has announced the launch of a Family and Inheritance Law Practice Group, led by Partner Julia Borozdna, and designed to "provide advice on property and non-property related personal issues in relation to any family relationships, including when people are planning to marry."
Dentons has appointed Bulgarian lawyer Atanas Politov as Europe Director of Pro Bono.
Eterna Law has announced the establishment of a Lobbying & GR Practice, to be headed by new Partner Philip Griffin. Eterna Law describes the Lobbying & GR Practice as the first "which adheres to and complies with all American legal practices and standards" in Ukraine.
In the past weeks the media has been in a frenzy revealing numerous irregularities in the "re-privatization" of property expropriated under the so called "Warsaw Decree".
Case: Tobias McFadden vs Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH
Ever since Serbia's Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU ('SAA') entered into force in September 2013, Serbian media have paid significant attention to the country's obligations concerning the acquisition of agricultural land by foreigners. The fear of one part of the public appears to be that, due to the application of the SAA, large portions of Serbian agricultural land will be sold out to foreigners.
The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (the “Commission”) announced that on August 29, 2016, it had initiated an investigation procedure against Inter Turs Plus (“ITP”), a transportation company from Arandjelovac, in order to determine the assumed abuse of its dominant position.
On 2 September 2016, the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition proposed a draft act for amendments (the "Draft") to the Competition Protection Act (the "CPA").
An interesting trend can be noticed recently as the Serbian Tax Administration and Tax Police have raised their level of activity in conducting routine tax inspections in companies across the country.
The strike of Skopje court administration employees that began in May ended in mid-August, according to Biljana Joanidis, the Managing Partner of Law Firm Joanidis — but only, perhaps, temporarily. Joanidis reports that the employees have agreed to return to work until the December 11 national elections — after which they’ll consider and, potentially, walk out once again.
This summer bpv Braun Partners, one of the leading law firms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Juliana Guaiato Aufschnaiter is a Senior Expert working within the Special Exposures Management team at Raiffeisen Bank International, where she reports to the head of division. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she’s been with RBI for over 10 years now, and she first moved to Vienna in 2004, when she took on her first role within the banking sector with the affiliate of Banco do Brasil in Austria. Earlier experience included working for TNT in Brazil.
On July 15, 2016, CEELM reported that Primus represented the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) in an arbitration with a football club and its players involving sanctions the LFF had imposed following match-fixing-related investigations before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), based in Lausanne, Switzerland. We reached out to the President of the Lithuanian Football Federation Edvinas Eimontas to get his insight into the matter.
